Appeal No. 2005-0562
Application 09/824,276
objected to, but is indicated to be allowable if rewritten in
independent form including all of the limitations of the
independent claim and any intervening claims1. Claims 12, 17 and
18 have been canceled.
Appellants’ invention relates to a manual transmission
assembly including a switch (64, 70) associated with a reverse
biasing assembly (40) of the transmission wherein the switch is
designed to cooperate with the movable housing (60) of a detent
mechanism (44) operatively associated with an interlock (42) of
the transmission and to indicate when a shift lever (12) of the
manually controlled transmission is positioned in or is entering
the first gear/reverse gate. Independent claim 11 is
representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of that
claim can be found in the Appendix to appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
1 See the paper mailed November 24, 2004 wherein the examiner
clarifies the status of claim 28, which claim was not mentioned
in the final rejection and was erroneously included in the
rejection set forth on page 2 of the examiner’s answer.
2
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